Seed, Food, Guts

In her presentation at MAD3, author and seed activist Vandana Shiva describes how decades ago she had the gut feeling to leave the world of physics (she has a PhD in quantum theory) to go fight against industrialized and commodified food systems. Although she had published work on the subject early in her career, she felt that that wasn’t enough. “If you’re serious and honest,” she says, “you can’t just analyze something.”

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Jeannette Ehlers is a Danish-Trinidadian multidisciplinary visual artist who aims to disrupt the dominating narratives and replace them with ones that acknowledge the aspects of history that have thus far been ignored. In her talk ‘Rewriting History’, Ehlers discusses how it is possible to reframe history so that it is inclusive to all.